Informes

MAIN POINTS - The situation in Goma is stable. - The French Minister of Foreign Affairs and his British counterpart arrived today in Goma, met with the humanitarian community and visited the Kibati I and II IDP sites. The humanitarian…

Aid agencies are struggling to get access to hundreds of thousands of people displaced in the recent escalation of conflict in Congo's Democratic Republic (DRC). Many aid workers have had to evacuate with relief operations suspended as fighting between…

I. HIGHLIGHTS - ROAD CONDITIONS DETERIORATE IN HEAVY RAINS, HAMPERING HUMANITARIAN ACCESS IN SOME AREAS OF NORTHERN AND NORTHEASTERN UGANDA; CROP DAMAGE REPORTED IN SOME PARTS OF ACHOLI AND TESO - HEPATITIS E VIRUS CONTINUES TO TAKE TOLL ACROSS KITGUM, PADER;…

U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUREAU FOR DEMOCRACY, CONFLICT, AND HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE (DCHA) OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA) Note: The last situation report was dated October 3, 2008. BACKGROUND In 2008, Sudan continues to cope with the effects of…

The international community should immediately appoint a high-level special envoy and provide additional military support for the UN's peacekeeping force, MONUC, to stop the violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, said international aid agency Oxfam today. Oxfam appealed to…

Goma, DRC, October 31, 2008 - The rule of law has all but collapsed and hundreds of thousands of lives will be at risk in the Democratic Republic of Congo without immediate help from the international community, the humanitarian…

Le Secrétaire général adjoint aux affaires humanitaires et Coordonnateur des secours d'urgence de l'ONU, John Holmes, a réclamé jeudi un accès humanitaire d'urgence dans la province du Nord-Kivu, dans l'Est de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC), où s'affrontent les…

October 30, 2008, Los Angeles, Calif. As clashes between rebels and government troops have caused renewed suffering in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, International Medical Corps (IMC) continues delivering emergency assistance to civilians fleeing the fighting, while working to maintain…

(New York, 30 October 2008): In eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, tens of thousands of men, women and children have had to flee following the latest intense fighting between rebels belonging to the National Congress for People's Defense (CNDP)…

Although the ceasefire was still holding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's West Kivu, and the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) was patrolling the city of Goma, the Mission was stretched…